• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.144-156
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• 2012

In recent years, advanced countries in energy sector are emphasizing the importance of the development and deployment of renewable energy to cope with the global environmental crisis such as depletion of fossil energy, climate convention to control emissions of greenhouse gases. In this paper, we evaluate the economic value of the investment in new and renewable energy R&D in Korea and optimal deployment timing of new and renewable energy by using the real option approach. The real option model adopted in this paper assumes that a decision maker has a compound option to abandon, deployment, or continue the R&D. As a result by using empirical data of Korea, it is found that there exists a considerable amount of positive real option value (ROV) in the investment of new and renewable energy R&D while its net present value (NPV) calculated by traditional discounted cash flow (DCF) model shows negative value.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.12-16
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• 2013

The nacelle anemometer mounted behind the blade roots of a wind turbine measures distorted wind speed comparable with free-stream wind because of the wake effects caused dependent upon the operation of the wind turbine and the rotation of its blades. The field campaign was carried out to measure free-stream wind speed at a height identical to the height of the nacelle anemometer by deploying a ground-based remote-sensing equipment, LIDAR. It is derived that a third-order polynomial equation for correcting wind speed measured by the nacelle anemometer to undistorted free-stream wind speed incident to a wind turbine. It is anticipated that the derived correction equation enables wind speed measured by the nacelle anemometer to be used as a precise input for a wind turbine performance test and for developing an active control logic.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권11호
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• pp.4049-4061
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• 2022

TRISO-coated particle fuel is widely used in high temperature gas cooled reactors and other advanced reactors. The performance of coated fuel particle is one of the fundamental bases of reactor safety. The failure probability of coated fuel particle should be evaluated and determined through suitable fuel performance models and methods during normal and accident condition. In order to better facilitate the design of coated particle fuel, a new TRISO fuel performance code named FRAT (Fission product Release Analysis Tool) was developed. FRAT is designed to calculate internal gas pressure, mechanical stress and failure probability of a coated fuel particle. In this paper, FRAT was introduced and benchmarked against IAEA CRP-6 benchmark cases for coated particle failure analysis. FRAT's results agree well with benchmark values, showing the correctness and satisfactory applicability. This work helps to provide a foundation for the credible application of FRAT.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2005

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2005년도 하계학술발표대회
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• pp.60-60
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• 2005

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.805-828
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• 2010

미국과 일부 EU 국가처럼 국내에서도 신재생에너지 보급 확산을 위해 시장기능을 강화하는 제도로서 신재생에너지 의무할당제(RPS)를 2012년 이후 도입할 예정이다. RPS의 도입을 통해 에너지 사업자에게 일정비율의 신재생에너지 공급을 의무화함으로써 신재생에너지 보급 확대에 기여한다는 것이다. 본 논문은 신재생에너지 의무할당제도의 도입에 따른 경제적 파급효과를 일반연산균형모형(CGE)을 이용한 정량적 분석을 통해 살펴보았다. 불완전 경쟁시장 가정 하에 내생적 성장모형(endogenous growth theory)에 기초한 CGE 모형을 이용하여 분석한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. RPS 제도는 물량을 규제하기 때문에 목표량을 오차 없이 달성할 수 있다는 장점을 지니고 있다. 신재생에너지의 목표량이 정확히 달성됨에 따라 보다 큰 기술 확산 효과를 기대할 수 있다. 그러나 의무적으로 신재생에너지를 공급함에 따라 투자비용이 상승하여 중단기적으로 GDP가 감소할 가능성이 존재한다. 결국 장기적인 관점에서 신재생에너지의 보급을 확대하고 경제성장을 견인하는 신성장 동력으로 활용하고자 한다면 RPS 제도를 도입하는 것이 바람직하다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권8호
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• pp.3095-3105
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• 2022

Solid Microencapsulated Fuel (SMF) is a type of solid fuel rod design that disperses TRISO coated fuel particles directly into a kind of matrix. SMF is expected to provide improved performance because of the elimination of cladding tube and associated failure mechanisms. This study focused on the neutronics and some of the fuel cycle characteristics of SMF by using OpenMC. Two kinds of SMFs have been designed and evaluated - fuel particles dispersed into a silicon carbide matrix and fuel particles dispersed into a zirconium matrix. A 7×7 fuel assembly with increased rod diameter transformed from the standard NHR200-II 9×9 array was also introduced to increase the heavy metal inventory. A preliminary study of two kinds of burnable poisons (Erbia & Gadolinia) in two forms (BISO and QUADRISO particles) was also included. This study found that SMF requires about 12% enriched UN TRISO particles to match the cycle length of standard fuel when loaded in NHR200-II, which is about 7% for SMF with increased rod diameter. Feedback coefficients are less negative through the life of SMF than the reference. And it is estimated that the average center temperature of fuel kernel at fuel rod centerline is about 60 K below that of reference in this paper.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.44-48
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• 2023

In heterojunction technology (HJT) solar cells, low-temperature curing paste is used because the passivation layer deteriorates at high temperatures of 200℃ or higher. However, manufacturing HJT photovoltaic (PV) modules is challenging due to the weak peel strength between busbar electrodes and cells after soldering process. For this issue, the electrode thicknesses of the busbars of the HJT solar cell were analyzed, and the peel strengths between electrodes and wires were measured after soldering using an infrared (IR) lamp. As a result, the electrodes printed by the screen printing method had a difference in thickness due to screen mask. Also, as the thickness of the electrode increased, the peel strength of the wire increased.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2018

Typical Meteorological Year Dataset is necessary for the renewable energy feasibility study. Since National Renewable Energy Laboratory has been built Typical Meteorological Year Dataset in 1978, gridded datasets taken from numerical weather prediction or satellite imagery are employed to produce Typical Meteorological Year Dataset. In general, Typical Meteorological Year Dataset is generated by using long-term in-situ observations. However, solar insolation is not usually measured at synoptic observing stations and therefore it is limited to build the Typical Meteorological Year Dataset with only in-situ observation. This study attempts to build the Typical Meteorological Year Dataset with satellite derived solar insolation as an alternative and then we evaluate the Typical Meteorological Year Dataset made by using satellite derived solar irradiance at Daejeon ground station. The solar irradiance is underestimated when satellite imagery is employed.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권5호
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• pp.745-749
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• 2017

Climate change and energy security are major factors for future national energy policy. To resolve these issues, many countries are focusing on creating new growth industries and energy services such as smartgrid, renewable energy, microgrid, energy management system, and peer to peer energy trading. The financial and economic evaluation of new energy services basically requires energy savings estimation technologies. This paper presents the baseline load estimation method, which is used to calculate energy savings resulted from participating in the new energy program, using moving average model with heating degree days (HDD) and cooling degree days (CDD) adjustment. To demonstrate the improvement of baseline load estimation accuracy, the proposed method is tested. The results of case studies are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed baseline load estimation method.